“Frank Fiorini, better known as Frank Sturgis, had an interesting career that started when he quit high school during his senior year… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
I worry more about the marketing that's taken hold since the 70s. The Jazz era, the Swing era, those were huge. Entire… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“The Adoption When Paul Jobs was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II, he made a wager with his… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“From the experience of state militias during the American Revolution, to the Spanish-American War; from the legendary Merrill’s Marauders, the highly skilled… — Tom Mangold Copy Share Image
Dachau has been my own lifelong point of no return. Between the moment when I walked through the gate of that prison,… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
“During the Allied invasion of World War II, hundreds of life-like rubber dummy paratroopers were dropped into the French countryside. These distractions… — Aaron R. Yilmaz Copy Share Image
“After World War II, the Italians made tremendous efforts to rebuild their country’s industry and economy. During the 1950s and ‘60s, with… — Marilyn Tolhurst Copy Share Image
“Dr. Louis Jolyon “Jolly” West was born in New York City on October 6, 1924. He died of cancer on January 2,… — Colin A. Ross Copy Share Image
“History is made up of "moral" judgments based on politics. We condemned Lenin's acceptance of money from the Germans in 1917 but… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
I keep thinking that history runs in cycles, and that some day certain large issues will come before the country again. There… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
There is another innovation at Harvard which I think made a tremendous difference and that is the decision to try to recruit… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Gore Vidal, Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, talk about how the U.S. became a national security state after World War II. Essentially there's… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
“The Adoption When Paul Jobs was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II, he made a wager with his… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“One also, in our milieu, simply didn't meet enough Americans to form an opinion. And when one did—this was in the days… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Any rational human being is horrified and existentially baffled by the reality of the Holocaust meted out by the Nazis, by the… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
“During the forty-five months of World War II, the United States lost just under 1 percent of its adult male population; during… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“General Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the global media to film the unspeakable hell of the Holocaust. General Eisenhower feared there would come… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
“In my generation we did a lot of pleasure chasing—we, the generation responsible for today’s twenty-year-olds and thirty-year-olds and forty-year-olds. Before they… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
“If your case, as a politically repressed person, is reviewed by the Special Council, you are almost guaranteed the standard sentence: ten… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that World War II was experienced very much as a continuity in that sense. Most of World War… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Towards the end of the Second World War, when I was sixteen years old, I was taken out of school and forced… — Johann Baptist Metz Copy Share Image
“Dante was standing near the Ponte Vecchio, a bridge that crosses the Arno River in Florence. It was just before 1300… Dante… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there. I… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
“TO MY MIND, THOUGH, there is a third development that has altered our parenting experience above all others, and that is the… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“When I was a schoolboy in England, the old bound volumes of Kipling in the library had gilt swastikas embossed on their… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Antisemitism did not begin in Germany, or anywhere else, in 1918; Jews had been regarded as dangerous outsiders for centuries, and anti-Jewish… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
“The appalling destruction and misery of this war mount hourly: destruction of what should be (indeed it is) the common wealth of… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“After World War II the Allies refused to recognize Karl Dönitz as the president or führer, Reichspräsident, of Germany. Instead they declared… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
“At the time, when one thought of a book on World War II Romania, it was the British author Olivia Manning’s 1960… — R.G. Waldeck Copy Share Image
“President Ronald Reagan, who spent World War II in Hollywood, vividly described his own role in liberating Nazi concentration camp victims. Living… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“It has been reliably established that from 1933 to 1945 millions of innocent people were systematically slaughtered on command. Gas chambers were… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
“During World War II, Waterman (1943) highlighted this fact and proposed an interesting theory regarding the original purpose of this structure. He… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“As we’ve gone along, I’ve pointed out that a warm childhood relationship with his mother—not maternal education—was significantly related to a man’s… — George E. Vaillant Copy Share Image
“Some books about the Holocaust are more difficult to read than others. Some books about the Holocaust are nearly impossible to read.… — Carol Rittner Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, just to see what was happening, my father would drive to the airport…. Before my birth, during the “Roaring 20’s” Newark… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
“Ah, my dear friend, cheer up... After all, we have peace! And because there is peace, the occupiers can't behave so abominably… — Andrzej Szczypiorski Copy Share Image
